Early drafts of the French novelist’s In Search of Lost Time featured honey-mixed toast or a biscotto instead of the sponge cakes that evoked childhood memoryIt was a mouthful of miniature sponge-cake dipped in tea that became one of French literature’s most powerful metaphors.
But the madeleine cakes that Marcel Proust made eminent as the trigger for nostalgia in his book might have actually started out as toasted bread, according to draft manuscripts to be published in France this week.
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Source: theguardian.com